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Ty for all you do

I don't see this as a threat, largely because I think quantum computing is much further away from realistic implementation than the media hypes it up to be. The best known attack on elliptic curve discrete log is Shor's algorithm which still requires 2^128 operations on a quantum computer. Doing even a tiny fraction of that is beyond our engineering capability at the moment, so I don't see this as a threat.

If there is a threat to Discrete Log, it's going to be something out of left field that no one expected and not something people have been hyping for decades like quantum computing.

Read Mastering Bitcoin and/or take my class programmingblockchain.com

I know my share of languages. You can see which on my linkedin page.

Hard to say exactly, but I imagine Bitcoin will become more important over time and eventually become the main store of wealth. Whether that happens 5 years from now or 30 years from now is hard to know. There are social considerations on stuff like this which isn't well studied or known.

If the BTC client doesn't have a wallet, I don't know if you need to secure it that well. Docker and nGinx are pretty good, but you can just run without either one. There are tutorials to run it on a cheap Raspberry Pi and separate at a hardware level.

I recommend off-line wallets for actual BTC storage.

Back when I learned in 2013, it was mostly whatever I could find on the internet. Some direction from people on bitcointalk and IRC as well, but mostly, it was just studying what I could study.

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I've been trying to write some of those articles! I'll let you be the judge on that.

I like Saifedean Ammous's "The Bitcoin Standard", which explains everything very well.

Hard forks are in general very difficult and antithetical to Bitcoin's voluntary nature. Second layers are orthagonal to this reality.

Digital gold. Off shore accounts. Probably in the trillions at least.

First, I love Brazil. I will be back some day. The people were what I most enjoyed. Everyone was super friendly and fun to be around.

Second, the sense that I got from a lot of Brazilians is that they really "get" the store of value property of bitcoin. They know what inflation is like and understand that having an asset that's not subject to inflation is really, really useful.

Third, Brazilians love their football! Since South Korea is out, I'll be cheering for Brazil the rest of the way.

1) Sound money. This in turn gives people more of a long time preference which includes capital accumulation and building up of civilization.

2) You can certainly have some sort of insurance, but the risk profiles are really hard to build and in the face of uncertainty, insurers generally charge a lot of money. I'm guessing many will just demand to be a part of the multisig to make this work.

Tether is centralized and you're right, there's no real innovation here except that we know how much they've essentially lent out. Of course a lot of it could be fake if they so chose, so the only real point is giving exchanges a convenient API.

What is the problem I need solved? Do I need something I can control? Am I okay with having everyone know what I'm doing? Am I ready to support the network for little to no revenue for a really long time?

I would encourage you to learn some Python and then take my class. There are scholarships for people like you and if you want to get into this space, this is a great way to get in.

Check programmingblockchain.com for details.

Yea, I was looking for them, too. I think they got deleted. If you have a scam accusation, please use another forum to do so.

How can I contact you to send you that photo?

Solidity is only important if you want to make dapps on Ethereum. Let's just say that most "dapps" are filling in ERC20 or ERC721 templates, so it's not exactly rocket science. My prediction is that the usefulness of ETH smart contracts will be less and less important over time.

I would recommend reading Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas or my upcoming book. You can also take my class programmingblockchain.com.

Without a doubt, Mastercoin back in the summer of 2013. It started the entire ICO trend which plagues our industry.

Interesting. Thanks for the response!

1) The internet is your main method of censorship resistance. We already have bittorent and the like to make content available. I don't know why you need a blockchain on top. That's really a costly way to store something.

2) Not coming to Mexico anytime soon, though I'm open to it.

For small amounts, most wallets are fine as long as you control the private keys.

Bitcoin.

Probably a lot of the bugs in the core code that are very annoying. Endianness choices, OP_CHECKMULTISIG, 4-byte timestamp. The original code wasn't that good.